--Actions Orange County, California chiropractor Chi Van Pham (pictured) took with underage patients. Following his convictions, an imprisoned 43-year-old Pham this week lost his argument that there was insufficient evidence the girls knew he was touching them in a sexual way. Sickened appellate justices noted, "There appears to be no limit to the ability of our species to devise new and different bad things to do to each other."

Believe it or not, Pham wasn't the first to try this legal move. In a prior California case, a doctor who masturbated a patient's penis during various steroid treatments unsuccessfully argued that he couldn't be held criminally responsible because he never told the patient he wouldn't whack him off. That doctor lost the point, but was freed on a technicality.

R. Scott Moxley’s award-winning investigative journalism has touched nerves for two decades. An angry congressman threatened to break Moxley’s knee caps. A dirty sheriff promised his critical reporting was irrelevant and then landed in prison. Corporate crooks won’t take his calls. Murderous gangsters mad-dogged him in court. The U.S. House of Representatives debated his work. Pusillanimous cops have left hostile messages using fake names. Federal prosecutors credited his stories for the arrest of a doctor who sold fake medicine to dying patients. And a frantic state legislator literally caught sleeping with lobbyists sprinted down state capital hallways to evade his questions in Sacramento.